Companies that reach a certain critical mass really truly become incompetent. I don’t mean just evil or profit first, I mean simply incompetent at the most basic aspects of running a business. There are marketing departments that behave as if the entire team is composed of interns frantically googling marketing slang.
Warner Bros, Hasbro, Apple, they’re carried by the inertia of their gigantic size and the customers that were alive to have moulded their vision about the company during their good years.
Companies that reach a certain critical mass really truly become incompetent
It’s by design.
The guy who creates a game studio to make his own game understands everything about making it.
The AAA studio that buys them out kinda understands games but care more about profit than any individual IP, so the game suffers.
The giant corporation that buys the AAA studio doesn’t give a fuck about games in general because it’s a small slice of a giant pie. They use the CEO position there as a training spot for executives that don’t understand anything about games.
It applies to any industry, but no one can out bid the giant corporations and they have to keep buying stuff up to maintain profit increases.
Eventually they’ll cannabilze everything till there’s 2-3 options then eventually just one.
They don’t even need to reach critical mass. The last place I was at was a shitshow held together by a handful of overachievers. At every level there were idiots making decisions and protecting friendly mouth-breathers. And when we would contact the Big Players in the industry, it was much the same on their end. It got to the point where I had to remind people that just because you’re calling Big Name Brand, the person you’re talking to is you. And they report to Dave (the know-nothing manager we all worked under). Nobody has a fucking clue. So cut the person on the other end of the line some slack.
Number must go up. Forever and ever.
Seems like at about 5000 employees is when HR becomes the thing that drives so many decisions that don’t matter. And from there it’s all downhill.
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Or they just want to pay their bills like everyone else
Can’t wait for everyone to call it “HBO Max, formerly known as HBO Max”.
The channel formerly formerly known as HBO MAX.
The channel currently and formerly known as HBO Max
The channel currently and formerly known as HBO Max and formerly not known as HBO Max
HBO Max formerly Max formerly HBO Max formerly HBO Now formerly HBO Go.
Edit: I forgot one.
I had a survey from them where I answered that dropping HBO from their branding was the second stupidest fucking decision they’ve made since Zaslav became CEO. Second only to removing legacy content and canning complete movies for tax purposes. That was maybe a month and change ago.
Nice. You did it!!!
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That last part has never been a part of the HBO business model.
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Are they gonna bring back all the quality content they removed to replace it with reality TV?
Because that’s what’s dropping subscribers, no one cares about the name.
They also removed 4k from the standard package while continuing to boost prices multiple times, and also filling it with sports I have no interest in. Combined with the fact the app continued to run awfully on Android TV, it made it a really easy decision to cancel
I agree with this statement but have to add The Pitt has been some of the best television I have seen in a few years. So i have hope that is the case.
I hate to say it, but I’ve been seeing those stupid banner ads while watching South Park and the premise at the very least seems interesting for The Pitt, I know absolutely nothing else though
Inb4 it turns just to HBO and then a nameless entity. It has no name. It just exists. Like death.
The streaming service formerly known as…
A streaming service has no name.
smack
That’s the Disney Channel (death of a career)
It never stopped being HBO Max to me.
/it’s OK to deadname non-human entities
Logo designers without much talent not originality must make a living, too.
Somehow, HBO Max returned.
They canceled all the good shows and replaced them with “reality” tv slop. No one gives a fuck what you call a trash fire, it is still a trash fire.
Trash Fire MAX
Common Side Effects is not slop
Yes, the one show I would pay to have HBO Max to have but I don’t because I’m a dirty pirate and got tired of paying them $20 a month
Ah, I almost forgot it was officially called Max, they kept the brand ‘HBO Max’ here. During the rebrand they found out we already had a public broadcaster called ‘Omroep MAX’, which is often shortened to just MAX in the names of their programs. Trying to claim that name would probably have not gone well for HBO.
Everybody’s been calling it HBO the entire god damned time!
Don’t forget… people got paid huge amounts to make these decisions 🙄
And paid huge amounts to pay for the marketing materials for the change. All when most people still called it HBO
It’s not about the destination, it’s about all the managers who got bonuses along the way!
If they really want customers back
- Finish Westworld (they had one season left) and put it back on the service
- Release the Batgirl movie
- Release the Cyote movie (though I think they actually sold this one)
- Bring back all the adult swim/cartoon network content they axed
Justice for infinity train. I want zaslavs head
More westworld yes please
That would cost them money. Changing their name costs them almost nothing.
HBO was the better name. And even Cinemax is a better name than Max.
I kept calling it HBO Max after the first change.
Most CEOs of entertainment companies are just people with business degrees who wish they were creative, but just aren’t.
HBO objected to HBO Max, so it was rebranded to Max. Now the top HBO execs have left so they’re changing it back.
Ah. I see. Guess I assumed they were part of the same company. Thanks.
They’re different divisions of WBD. HBO is a premium cable channel that focuses on high-end productions, while Max is a general streaming service.
The problem is they don’t ever stop paying the marketing team. Eventually you don’t need more marketing and yet. Gestures around. Just hire a PR team for fucks sake.
Is it just a complicated form of embezzlement? You have some unqualified fucks put stock video clips and mindless musack together in windows movie maker so you have an excuse to pay them way too much? The marketting department sure as shit isn’t helping the product’s marketting.
